Harriette Arnow (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow chronicled the people and land of rural Kentucky in both fiction and nonfiction. She spent her early years in Wayne County, Kentucky; by the time she was of school age, her family had moved to Burnside, Kentucky, living high on a hill above the Cumberland River. Her parents, Elias and Mollie Jane Denney Simpson, were both descendants of early Kentucky settlers, and Arnow was reared with a strong sense of roots and a deep appreciation for the region. Storytelling, too, was part of her early education. In a 1983 interview published in Appalachian...
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